Quotes About Loss

The truth is, since the day I met her, it's all been for her. My whole life. My whole existence. I don't know how I'll say good-bye.

There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.

Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you missed them last.

It wasn't quite the death of hope—part of her still hoped that Coop was alive somewhere. It was more like the application of hope. She wanted to make sure that no one else—child, adult, crew member, captain—would ever lose a loved one to foldspace again. It was probably a vain hope. But it would keep her going, for at least another forty years.

Married, Married, Married! Buried! Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

Out of the Dust is a story about a lanky piano-playing girl named Billie Jo whose mother is gone, whose father's heart and soul are disappearing into the dust that blankets their Oklahoma town, and even though the first 59 pages rain down hard on you, when you get to page 60 the monsoon comes and the book is unputdownable.

Thought It does not take a math genius to understand that when you subtract a mother from the equation what remains is negative.

All because your bike got stolen and you lost your cool one night and then posted that you needed someone to intervene between you and the monsters and your cousin Julie told your aunt who called your dad who texted Mom who drove all night and scheduled an appointment with St. Nick who thinks your post was a cry for help when actually you were just listening to Eminem and thought the song was kinda nice

What has been taken from you, it is this that owns you, and you, shell of all joy, must walk through this city as beautiful as the last summer flowers.

A world without you is unknown to me. I don't even know if it exists.

Ni siquiera sabía si estaba triste. Junto con las lágrimas, mis emociones se habían ido deslizando hacia alguna parte.

Eso es porque Aki se ha ido. Porque la he perdido. Ya no hay nada que desee ver. Ni en Australia, ni en Alaska, ni en el Mediterráneo, ni en la Antártida. En este mundo, vaya a donde vaya, siempre me sucederá los mismo. Por más maravilloso que sea el paisaje que tenga ante los ojos, nunca me emocionaré; la más hermosa de las vistas no me gustará. Ha desaparecido la persona que me hacía desear, ver, saber y sentir..., incluso vivir.

Ahora estas sufriendo por ella. Pero ella esta muerta y ya no padecera mas. Y tu sufres en vez de ella. En su lugar. Y, haciendolo, ¿no estas empezando a vivir por ella?

Dealing with the loss of Kelsey should have made her more attuned to the agony of others,

I heard people say that when you lose someone you love, they keep thinking they see him. Like when a stranger walks by, they'll do a double take to make sure it's not him. They'll hear his voice in a cafe only to realize that what they heard was the sound of some baritone DJ on the radio.

We lost the knowledge of God," he went on to say, "at the moment when we transformed the Ecclesia from experience into theology, from a living reality into moralistic principles, good values, and high ideals. When that happened," Father Maximos said humorously, "we became like tin cans with nothing inside.

Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains.

As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: "Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.

the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness

Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself. Anonymous